Choosing An SQL Backup for Your Company

When you are looking at any SQL backup programs, your obvious first decision may be based on price, but there are other far more important factors to consider. There are very good quality backup programs available at all price points, so finding a program that is right for you is more important.

The SQL backup program you choose should be easy enough for you or your IT department to use. You don't want it to be so complicated that only one person in your company has the skills to operate it. If you do, and that person goes, you might be in a lot of trouble.

Another factor that you should consider is not only how easy it is to back up your data, but how easy it is to restore it. Most programs now make backing up your data fairly easy, but when it comes to putting the information back up on your server and getting all of the users back up and running, that is not so easy. So, make sure that the program you choose is user-friendly when it comes to restoring data.

Finally, it goes without saying that you need to keep your data offsite. Having a backup that is sitting in the same building as your server is ludicrous, since whatever destroys your server will probably destroy your backup. Therefore, make sure that the backup program you select makes it extremely easy, quick, and affordable to back up all of your information from your server to the cloud or an outside server.